Bugelspanner or GEM or even BugelGem?

[frakor]

Very interesting find!
Never seen one (or even a picture) before .......

It is a cross between a Bugelspanner and a GEM, as it uses the barrel and cylinder system from a GEM and the cocking handle and stock from a Bugelspanner.
It is not a homemade project as the castings are specificly made for this model, and all parts are hand fitted and numbered with the cyfer "9" .
No indication of a manufacturer anywhere to be found, so can only take a wild gues who could have made it.
Eisenwerke Gaggenau, Oscar Will or Fritz Langenham spring to mind,but who knows?















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Frank

[Binners]

Nice selection there...

[Garvin]

Extraordinary find, Frank! I think Gemspanner is really what it should be called.

[Garvin]

In some respects it is similar to the Eisenwerke Gaggenau mod 1.

[frakor]

Think you are right, Danny, they do have some things in common. :-)
But I wonder where they (the auction people) got the identification from?
The only catalogues I have seen start with the model number 9, so how would the numbers 1 - 9 be identified?
Must assume there is another catalogue out there I would love to see ..

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Frank

[Garvin]

Think you are right, Danny, they do have some things in common. :-)
But I wonder where they (the auction people) got the identification from?
The only catalogues I have seen start with the model number 9, so how would the numbers 1 - 9 be identified?
Must assume there is another catalogue out there I would love to see ..

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Frank

Frank if anyone will know what you have, Eberhard in Germany is the man. He will probably see the link but I'll email him in case he hasn't.

[ccdjg]

You were perfectly correct Danny. Courtesy of Eberhard Groba, the gun can be identified as an Oscar Will Nr. 1a bugelspanner, dating from about 1910. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...psxtmjfeuq.jpg

[Garvin]

You were perfectly correct Danny. Courtesy of Eberhard Groba, the gun can be identified as an Oscar Will Nr. 1a bugelspanner, dating from about 1910. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...psxtmjfeuq.jpg

Great, thanks for posting this, John.

[frakor]

Great news, thanks to John and Eberhart I know now what it is. :-)

But what amazes me is the OTHER Bugelspanner's discription!
That must be one of the first Single stroke pneumatics ever made.

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Frank